Motivational Quotes

Music

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Music

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

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Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

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She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Camus, Albert

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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland